NEW GERMAN DISCOVERY.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18653, 3 June 1932, Page 6

NEW GERMAN DISCOVERY.

REVOLUTIONISES REJUVENATION. One of the vital elements governing sex, growth, and development has been isolated and produced in the form of crystals that can be taken like ordinary medicine. It may mean youth in a wineglass. That is the momentous achievement <Tf a German scientist, Dr. Butenandt, of Gottengen University. It means that / the whole question of rejuvenation may’ be revolutionised. Gland-grafting operations may become obsolete, and those who are undeveloped physically and psychologically may be changed into healthy and vigorous people. Dr. Butenandt had for long been seeking to isolate the essential principle of one of the several internal secretions . known as hormones —powerful secretions which flow into the bloodstream, and on the correct proportions of which the health of the body depends. He has now succeeded, and has produced an extract in its pure state. The substance obtained has tremendous influence on the vital functions. The Results Explained. Sir Arthur Keith explained the results attained to a Sunday Express representative recently. “The substance has long been known to exist,” he said, “but it was only obtainable in solution. It was mixed with other elements. “This meant that the results following its use always had about them a degree of uncertainty—we were rather in the position of a man trying to hit a target with an old-fashioned blunderbuss. “But now, with the production of Dr. Butenandt’s crystals, we have the substance pure and unmixed. “We oan study its effects accurately, control its action, standardise it, and determine graded doses. The results may prove to be more far-reaching than we can see at present. “It is too early to discuss those possible results In detail, but in the matter of rejuvenation alone vastly improved effects may be hoped for. At the same time it would be foolish to anticipate miracles.”